Open AccessFatty liver disease: Disparate predictive ability for cardiometabolic risk and all-cause mortality
Author(s) -
Altan Onat,
Günay Can,
Ayşem Kaya,
Tuğba Akbaş,
Fatma Özpamuk-Karadeniz,
Barış Şimşek,
Hakan Çakır,
Hüsniye Yüksel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v21.i48.13555
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , diabetes mellitus , body mass index , proportional hazards model , type 2 diabetes , metabolic syndrome , population , blood pressure , confidence interval , endocrinology , gastroenterology , environmental health
To assess the association of a surrogate of fatty liver disease (FLD) with incident type-2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and all-cause mortality.